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Gourmet riding holiday in Andalucía - in pictureshttps://www.theguardian.com/travel/gallery/2012/mar/16/gourmet-riding-holiday-andalucia-in-pictures
Click through the gallery to see highlights from a new horse riding and cooking holiday in Gaucín, Andalucía, where <strong>Rachel Dixon</strong> rode along old smuggling routes to meet local food producers<br /><br /><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2012/mar/16/gourmet-horse-riding-spain-food-andalucia">Read more about Rachel's trip</a> and find out <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2012/mar/16/gourmet-horse-riding-spain">how to do it</a> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/travel/gallery/2012/mar/16/gourmet-riding-holiday-andalucia-in-pictures">Continue reading...</a>Horse riding holidaysFood and drinkAndalucia holidaysSpain holidaysTravelFri, 16 Mar 2012 11:29:00 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/travel/gallery/2012/mar/16/gourmet-riding-holiday-andalucia-in-picturesPhotograph: Neil ArmstrongGourmet riding in Andalucía Photograph: Neil ArmstrongPhotograph: Neil ArmstrongGourmet riding in Andalucía Photograph: Neil ArmstrongRachel Dixon2012-03-16T11:29:00ZGourmet horse riding in Andalucíahttps://www.theguardian.com/travel/2012/mar/16/gourmet-horse-riding-spain-food-andalucia
Andalucía in southern Spain is as famed for its robust cuisine as its rugged horse riding trails. This new holiday combines galloping off into the mountains with eating fantastic local food<br /><br />In pictures: see a <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/gallery/2012/mar/16/gourmet-riding-holiday-andalucia-in-pictures">gallery of Rachel's trip</a><br /><strong>Read our Spain special in Saturday's Guardian Travel </strong><p>The Serranía de Ronda is horse country. This mountainous region in southern Andalucía is just an hour north of the Costa del Sol, but a world away from its high-rise hotels. It is an unspoilt land of <em>pueblos blancos</em> (white villages), where every family keeps a horse in the garden, riding is a way of life and festivals are centred on displays of equestrian skill. A fitting place, in short, for a riding holiday.</p><p>Andalucía is also known for its cuisine, notably gazpacho, jamón ibérico, fried fish and, of course, sherry. I was there to experience a new holiday, Gallops for Gourmets, that combines the twin pleasures of riding and food. The trip was based at El Nobo, a stunning Moorish-style <em>cortijo</em> (country estate) in Gaucín, one of the white villages. I had La Bumba all to myself – a little stone cottage perched on the edge of the mountain with views stretching all the way to Gibraltar and, on a clear day, to the Atlas mountains and Africa.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2012/mar/16/gourmet-horse-riding-spain-food-andalucia">Continue reading...</a>Andalucia holidaysHorse riding holidaysSpain holidaysSpanish food and drinkFood and drinkTravelEurope holidaysFood & drinkFri, 16 Mar 2012 11:12:00 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/travel/2012/mar/16/gourmet-horse-riding-spain-food-andaluciaPhotograph: Neil ArmstrongGuide Karen leads a group of riders up a hillside trail in Andalucía. Photograph: Neil ArmstrongPhotograph: Neil ArmstrongGuide Karen leads a group of riders up a hillside trail in Andalucía. Photograph: Neil ArmstrongRachel Dixon2012-03-16T11:12:00ZJohn Bishop goes horse-riding in Spainhttps://www.theguardian.com/travel/2012/jan/27/horse-riding-andalucia-john-bishop
'Rule number one. You are on a horse, not a Chopper, so do not lean back hoping for a wheelie. You will look stupid'<p>There are few things from childhood that define your social class more than your relationship with horses. If you grew up on a council estate, as I did, a horse was something each member of the family put money on once a year when the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_National" title="">Grand National</a> came around, so you could enjoy the joy of bonding as a family by shouting at the television in support of your particular nag and threatening to turn the losers into glue.</p><p>Melanie, my wife, had a different upbringing. The only daughter of a&nbsp;working-class boy from Preston who became a successful businessman, much of her childhood was spent owning and riding horses. She'd be in one part of the annual country show jumping a prized pony while I was in another riding a secondhand <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/gallery/2011/jul/14/chopper-dash-cycle-race-in-pictures#/?picture=376868879&amp;index=0" title="">Chopper</a> and trying to be <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/dec/01/usa.suzannegoldenberg" title="">Evel Knievel</a>.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2012/jan/27/horse-riding-andalucia-john-bishop">Continue reading...</a>Horse riding holidaysAndalucia holidaysSpain holidaysEurope holidaysTravelJohn BishopFri, 27 Jan 2012 23:02:00 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/travel/2012/jan/27/horse-riding-andalucia-john-bishopPhotograph: James Rajotte for the GuardianJohn Bishop gets to know his mount on a horse-riding holiday in Andalucia: 'Cielo seemed slightly aggrieved at having to lug 14 stones of bouncy Englishman on his back rather than the graceful, light weight of someone who was in with the rhythm of the horse.' Photograph: James Rajotte for the GuardianPhotograph: James Rajotte for the GuardianJohn Bishop gets to know his mount on a horse-riding holiday in Andalucia: 'Cielo seemed slightly aggrieved at having to lug 14 stones of bouncy Englishman on his back rather than the graceful, light weight of someone who was in with the rhythm of the horse.' Photograph: James Rajotte for the GuardianJohn Bishop2012-01-27T23:02:00ZSet your family free: rural bliss in Spainhttps://www.theguardian.com/travel/2010/jun/26/family-finca-moro-spain-andalucia
Family holidays on the Med don't have to mean endless pizza and karaoke. An Andalucian finca offers peace, quiet and a taste of the real Spain<p>A couple of years ago, we went on holiday by mistake. Desperate for sun and "family fun", we chose Cala Galdana in Menorca, a place I'd been to with my own parents way back in 1973. I remembered it as a promised land of pedaloes, Guantanamera and endless iced chocolate milk. Thirty-five years later, it had lost much of its appeal. It was wall-to-wall pizza, crazy golf and long karaoke sessions late into the evening, the strains of Mamma Mia! lulling us into a fretful sleep in our hot-box apartment each night. My husband hated it with a passion. By day four we weren't talking. By day six there were tears – and not just from the kids. I don't think there was a day seven.</p><p>Two summers on, when I suggest Spain again, it goes down like a brick. But this is different, I chirrup. A finca! In the middle of nowhere! Hold me back, says my husband, but he agrees to the trip, chiefly because it sounds ridiculously romantic – <a href="http://www.fincaelmoro.com/" title="">Finca el Moro</a>, a remote 70-acre farm in the Sierra de Aracena, close to the Portuguese border and far from the dreaded Costas.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2010/jun/26/family-finca-moro-spain-andalucia">Continue reading...</a>Family holidaysSpain holidaysAndalucia holidaysSelf-cateringHorse riding holidaysTravelFri, 25 Jun 2010 23:04:11 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/travel/2010/jun/26/family-finca-moro-spain-andaluciaPhotograph: PRLess is Moro ... an alfresco lunch at Finca el MoroPhotograph: PRLess is Moro ... an alfresco lunch at Finca el MoroMimi Spencer2010-06-25T23:04:11Z